Alain Resnais - Career, Collaborators, Awards, Trivia, Filmography, Further reading

Film director, born in Vannes, NW France. He studied in Paris, and made a series of prize-winning short documentaries, such as Van Gogh (1948, Oscar) and Guernica (1950). His first feature film was Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Hiroshima, My Love), and this was followed by the controversial L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961, Last Year at Marienbad), hailed as a Surrealistic and dreamlike masterpiece by some, as a confused and tedious failure by others. His later films include Mon Oncle d'Amérique (1980, My American Uncle), La vie est un roman (1983, Life is a Novel), Mélo (1986), Smoking/No Smoking (1993), and On Connaît la Chanson (1997, Same Old Song).

Alain Resnais

Born:	June 3, 1922 Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
Occupation:	film director, producer,

Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes, France) is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Nouvelle Vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known internationally for three of his early works: Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), and L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (1961).

Career

Highly regarded in his native country of France, Alain Resnais began making films in the mid-1940's after completing his studies at L`Institut hautes études cinématographiques.

He completed his first full-length film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, in 1959.

Collaborators

Many of his films were produced by Anatole Dauman and Argos Films who also produced films for other Left Bank film makers such as Chris Marker.

Awards

Prix Jean Vigo in 1954 and 1956 Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival 2006 for Coeurs (aka Private Fears in Public Places).

Trivia

The previews for Resnais's films never show clips from those films.

Filmography

L'aventure de Guy (1936) Schéma d'une identification (1946) Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946) Visite à Oscar Dominguez (1947) Visite à Lucien Coutaud (1947) Visite à Hans Hartnung (1947) Visite à Félix Labisse (1947) Visite à César Doméla (1947) Van Gogh (1947) Portrait d'Henri Goetz (1947) Le lait Nestlé (1947) Journée naturelle (1947) La bague (1947) L'alcool tue (1947) (as Alzin Rezarail) Van Gogh (1948) Malfray (1948) Les jardins de Paris (1948) Châteaux de France (1948) Guernica (1950/I) Gauguin (1950) Pictura (1952) Les statues meurent aussi (1953) Night and Fog (1955) Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) Le mystère de l'atelier quinze (1957) Le chant du Styrène (1958) Hiroshima mon amour (1959) L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963) La Guerre est finie (1966) Loin du Vietnam (1967) Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) Cinétracts (1968) L'an 01 (1973) (New York scenes) Stavisky (1974) Providence (1977) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) La vie est un roman (1983) L'amour à mort (1984) Mélo (1986) I Want to Go Home (1989) Contre l'oubli (1991) Gershwin (1992) Smoking/No Smoking (1993) On connaît la chanson (1997) Pas sur la bouche (2003) Cœurs (2006)

Further reading

Wilson, Emma, Alain Resnais (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006).